Ignorance Ignorance is seen every day of our lives. Even people in the 1850's were aware of ignorance. Ignorance is defined as being uneducated or resulting from or showing lack of knowledge. Ignorance can be taken to extremes though. There is complete ignorance where the person thinks that even though they do not understand it all they still know everything. Then others of us say that even though I am not sure about it I am knowledgeable to my ignorance. In Moby Dick, Ishmaels ignorance can be ...

Nicholas Sine Period Four 4-6-98 Ignorance is Not Bliss "Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice". -Victor Cousin. As knowledge gives us the power to create, ignorance gives us the power to destroy. Over time, man's creations that may be awesome, turn against, and kill him. In Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, man destroys himself with his own creation. The wrong uses of any creation lead to destruction. Destruction comes unquestionably from the ignorance of man. Mankind wants to know...

The Playground of The Gods Cathy Spellman's, The Playground of The Gods is an exuberant novel which deals with murder in a remote tropical paradise but can further be read as an illustration of man's ignorance and invasion of nature. ' Do it big, or stay in bed. ' (Larry Kelly). These are words that ThorosGagarian lives by. He is one of the wealthiest men in the world and when picking his private paradise, only one place on earth could serve his needs and fantasies. This place is Mora Utu-The pl...

Dracula, by Bram Stoker, is a classic tale of Gothicism. Traditionally, gothic tales only carried single theme of horror. Through Dracula, Stoker breaks this single theme barrier. The theme throughout Dracula is clearly displayed through the characters as they step from ignorance to realization in this tale of horror. The theme of ignorance is vital for this story. It is woven throughout and evident in all the characters. It is first displayed through the protagonist, John Harker. It is his inna...

Everyday we each face questions of what we ought to do. We sometimes ask ourselves", What if everyone did that?" Every time you decide to pick up a piece of trash because you want the city to look nice, you are not doing it because of the aesthetic effect of one piece of trash, but rather what the city would look like if no one picked up their trash. Kant uses this everyday question in his system of morality as part of the categorical imperative. For Kant, the morality of an action can be determ...

Oronooko is an excellent play by A phra Behn that discusses a large array of wonderful themes. The story's main character depicts a person of power. He was in a sense eventually forced to empathize with those he unintentionally caused a great deal of harm to. Oronooko a man of royalty participated in the selling of African slaves. An African himself saw nothing wrong in doing this; this was an accepted part of his culture. He befriended the British and lived a life envied by those he persecuted....

"Agnosticism is the philosophical position that it is impossible to know about the nature or existence of God". The term was invented in 1869 by Thomas H Huxley from the Greek "agnostos". So one can define the difference between an Atheist and an Agnostic is simply as the Atheist emphasizes that there is no God, whereas the Agnostic maintains only that he does not know. Agnosticism is not a position one can take like theism or atheism, rather it's more like an rational process. But when we consi...

In the year 1625, Francis Bacon, a famous essayist and poet wrote about the influences of fear on everyday life. He stated, "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other" (Essays Dedication of Death). Clearly, external surroundings affect perceptions of fear as well as human nature in general. Although C.S. Lewis published the novel, Out of the Silent Planet, over three centuries after Bacon wrote his theory on f...

Humanism Encarta Dictionary says that Humanism is a system of thought that centers on human beings and their values, capacities and worth. Encarta also goes on the say that, in philosophy, humanism is an attitude that emphasizes the dignity and worth of an individual. A basic premise of humanism is that people are rational beings who possess within themselves the capacity for truth and goodness. I see myself as a being a humanist through everyday life. I always try to see the good in a person wh...

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST CHARACTER STUDY LADY BRACKNELL Manner of Speech Lady Bracknell's untiring set of rules and standards and her overuse of "should" and "must" are characteristic of the voice of English authority. Her dialogue and aggressive, masculine control ("You can take a seat, Mr. Worthing") are unbelievable, and therefore comical and hilarious. Although Lady Bracknell's haughty tone, pace, and manner in offering advice to Gwendolyn and Jack about how, whom, and when to marry s...

Censoring is like keeping a wild animal in a cage. You isolate it from its natural environment trying to protect it in some way but actually you imprison it, reducing its freedom and ignoring its personal will and right to be free. Censoring is limiting freedom and avoiding or ignoring the unpleasant part of our every day life and the social problems we encounter. But the animal in the cage can never develop its habits as its wild brothers and when let out into nature it can not survive. In the ...